Ulrich Bodenstein

Ulrich Bodenstein (11 November 1783-20 March 1815) was a colonel of the Austrian Empire. He fought in the Napoleonic Wars and the Neapolitan War and was killed in action in the Battle of Sessa Aurunca.

Biography
Ulrich Bodenstein was born in Graz, Austria in 1783. He enlisted in the cavalry of the Austrian Empire in 1800 at the age of 17 and fought in the Battle of Marengo in northern Italy during the French Revolutionary Wars. He also fought in the campaigns against Marshal Jean-Andre Massena in northern Italy after 1805.

In 1815, Bodenstein was given command of a regiment of Uhlans during the Neapolitan War. In the Battle of Sessa Aurunca his unit barely escaped the flaming shot of the French/Neapolitan howitzers, and Bodenstein himself was hit by a fragment in the chest but went on riding. He died five days later in Trieste after the shot boared a hole into his heart.